May 14, 2010

Today it was actually HOT outside!! Just in time for me to take pictures of my baby girl wearing a couple new things from ~Couture Unraveled~

The *new* garden party flower clip...

This flower has 6 pretty petals with a pearl accented rosette...It can be worn clipped to a hat OR as a hairclip alone!!!

New hat!! I am going to call it the "Lazy Dazy" hat...

I am in LOVE with B & W photo's right now!! They are just so old fashioned!! Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a day without all the mumble jumble that goes on now a day's...to live in a more "plain" time...these pictures bring me to a place I have never been before.....

ONLY in B & W can you take a picture of a little girl standing beside a road blocked sign and have it be CUTE!!

May 11, 2010

I was garage saleing and i saw this lamp(for $5.00)...thought it was cute, even though the lampshade was a bit..."tattered"...i thought to myself...as long as it lights up...I can always "buy" a new lampshade!!...I mean surely they sell this style of lampshade in the stores?!...I've seen them before!...right??

WRONG!!

They do not!! well not that I could find anyway...so I sat with this lampshade for a year...tattered and broken(my kids helped tatter it more...and now the plastic stuff that lined the fabric was chipping off!) I was at the end of my rope and told my hubby...that lamp!...has to GO!!!(like he bought it...right!!heh)

but...

something stopped me...I am very frugal..well...I think I am anyway!!

I couldn't get rid of it!! Well...not without first TRYING to do SOMETHING with the lampshade...

So....

I started with a sheet...I no longer used...

My excitement at finally decideing to take the plunge and do SOMETHING, prevented me from getting a before picture of the broken tattered lampshade... so...here is the frame of the lampshade...down to the bare minimals!!hehe! and a picture of the lamp with no shade...not cute..at ALL!! LOL!

so... I cut a strip off one of the finished edges of the sheet and hot glued it around the top of the frame...and one on the inside...did I mention I LOVE hot glue guns?!

so...then I took 2 LONG strips from the sheet...about 3" wide(mine wer far from perfectly straight...I love projects where un-perfect is perfect!!)

I attached one end at a corner with...yep...you guessed it....HOT GLUE!!

then started wrapping...useing glue wherever I felt it needed to "stick" mostly on the corners but sometimes in the middle too...

Here it is all finshed being wrapped...yes it looks cute now...but i felt it was lacking character...

May 6, 2010

A friend of mine recently had a baby girl named Ashlynn...she is BEAUTIFUL!!! I asked Mom if she could be my model!!! and she said YES!!YAY!!! as much as I would like to be a photographer...i'm NOT!!! even though I TRY!!! HAHA!!! Here is my mini session with Ashlynn Ray...